The Sun. — London, England, 1809-01-31 00:00:00

, r POIITSMOtTrIt j JAN.- 3©. • :-.The whole of this diy it has blown a tremendous gale at W.S.W. and we fear much damage has been done at SpitheaJ. The following Transpq►rts, ,i Bce. have just dante hilt) harbout• with Ilia loss of anchors and o.ibies, viz. the Metealfe, ,Kot K/NS, 150, John Spriq, 87, !Larne, EMINGWOOD, 1:39, Lord Nei on, BELL, and Venus, Sala?. A large Brig Transport is on shore on the Horse Bsßd TERTRO, SAL .—The Osborn:hospitat-ship, ar 3'ived the day before yesterday, in seven days from Lisbon. She sailed in company With several other Ships under convoy of the Jamaica Frigate, and parted in a heavy gale of wind at the mouth of the Tagus. The Osborn is crouded with the brave felt' lows. who have suffered' bath by the sword and se verity of the late campaign in Spain and PortUgat; upwards of 200 disabled have arrived in her. When this Ship left Lisbon eve!) , preparation was tusking for the immediate evacuation of 'that place by the Brida l two regiments (the 27th 11(1 gth foot) were to have eMbarked that day in the river.—Our troops were recalled from the frontiers.-7-The Portuguese seemed to be in a state of the utmost alarm. DEAL) . 30.--Artived his Majesty's Ship Xangaran from a craize, and remains in the DownS with his Majesty's Ships as per last. ......_—_—____ Further particulars respecting the loss of . the .Dis/alc4 : Oil Sunday morning, the Dispatch transport, Captain Barclay, having three officers, 72 men, and 36 horses on board, all of the 7th Light Dra goons, from Corunna, was' driven upon the rocks rear Coverack, about three leagues N. E. of the Lizard, and all on board perished, excepting seven pri4ate dragoons. The three unfortunate Offeera, Who had survived a disastrous campaign, to perish on the Englih shore were Major C aven di s h, C apt. lauckenfield,- and L ieutenant . Waldegrave. Lieu tenant-Colonel Vivian and Captain Treweek had also embarked on board this transport at Corot : lna, but had afterwards been invited on board the Bar teur,' by theinfriend, Captain Linzee, of that ship, and were thus preserved to' their count ry and friends. These Gentlemen had landed 'at Plymouth, ' nd reached Trur o t oget h er, t h e night betnre the nee Of the ship wrec k was received here. Mr. John V i i4p (the 'C o l o b e l' s b rot h er) and Capt.. Treweek, in»le f diately set off for Coverack, where they found Mr. Grylls and several other neighbouring Gentlemen, with a -party. of Capt. Morris's troop of the lliii Dragoons, under, Serjeant Conner, frum Heiston, anxiously exerting theinsehes to rescue the lives and property of the sufferers.- The active assistance afforded by Lieut. Peck of the oeighhourin& sig .ual station, did that Gentleman great honour. The scene was truly shocking, About fifty dead bodies or per brave defenders lay scattered on the shore, mon which watrecognised that . 'of Major Coven- . dish, which was • Jaonveyed 'to lielston: The seven:, survivors were a l so conveyed to Helston, and thence in a light cart to Truro (except one, who was too much bruised to travel). The poor fellows were kindly received and entertained at the house of the Colonel's father, and lodged in Truro Barracks..-.-, 'About fifty coffins were sent Iron.* Heston.. to re- calve the .dead bodies, which were ail decently in= tarred in St. lieverue burying-ground. The effe& of thO storm during the whole of y - . off y - terday was severely telt through the metropolis,— Several houses in Portman-square have, sustained considerable damage. The Portuguese Ambassador's house, in South Audley-street, had the skyliiht broken by the falling in of .the weathercock. the Earl of Essex's house, in klill-street, has also been damaged. The Passengers in the streets were iti danger, froth the chimney -pots and tiles, which fell in great quantities. : On the night of y es t er d ay seinnight, the ,Theatre, at Hull, wis.rebbed by some villaiui who appear to have been accreted and , left in it after the performance was finished and the company had withdrawn. The Treasurer, Mr. Firth's closet, upon 'the floor of he . shilling gallery, and that in the Lobby, where tieltts are received, were both broken open, but the rtl;- . bets were disappointed in riot fi uding any mon yii and revenged themselves by throWitig the tickets about thefleor. In the. Ladies' Dressing-room, the boxes of Mrs. Wrench, • Mrs. 'Knight, aad Miss Decamp were broken open, and the former ' was, robbed Of a variety of jewellery and ornaments to a: conside'rable , atnount. The boxes of the other two Ladies were ransacked, but the robb e rs not finding any thing there to so, their perposes, bad left the witc4lu of their clothei, ,dresses, tire. 4trowuci about the rooms, Money or jewellery. appears' to have been their . sole .objed. ,Buans, TitePoer.—Friday.last, being the anni versary of ROBERT BURNS, the Scottish Bard's bit th - day, a number of Caledonian Gentletnen met at the 41 ' 1 ';'en's Head Tatiern, in Gseat Titchfield-street, to' thecelehraterthe same. The President, Vice-President, and Malty of the' o th er M en i bers, were dressed; is Highland costu me , w hi ch had a very grand e aea• After . an .excellent supper, a celebrat ed ilighland Piperi who was e ngage d f or the occatiun, gave several of their national airs, which were highly aPPIOded. Young BURNS, son of the late celebrated Bard, likewise accompanied with his flute several plaintive Scotch airs, to which his lather's poetry is adapted, in a highly tender and expressive manner. „Between each piece of music appropriate toasts and Sentiments were given i and after an evening spent in the utmost conviviality and harmony, the corn- Piny departed, highly gratified at having met on such all honuurable occasion. 0. The ' publisher of Dr. LARDNI4*S Works, in 1 collected form, in 1788, has not abandoned the . oe. sign of reprinting them, although he has had ,copies for sale tia within these last six months.' • lie has 'waited' only for a reduaion in the price Of, Paper which he trusts must soon take Pilaw, when he hopes to give a new edition as acceptable to the friends of Christianity as the former, and with some peculiar advantages. U .L 4 1 F The: dreadful fire which consumed the eßtensive hotel of Air. Warne, in Conduit -street, Hanover square, and part of an adjoining house, on Sunday evening, Was occasioned we understand, by: the careltissness" of Lord Faulkener's valet de chambre, who had some of his Lordship's linen to air at the fire, in which the poker lerd been stuck. Having occa,ion to leave the apartment, it is suppoied, dur ing his absence, the poker 'kit from the fire and communicated to the Most coinbuStibie Materials nearest its kifluence, which happened unfortunately to be some muslin handkerchiefs which hung on a chair, .mid'in the course of a few minutes' the Whole: room was in a flame. A considerable tifne ehysed before the accident was discovered; when it was too late to extinguish the flameS,which were then rag ing with the utmost fury, and nothing but confusion and dismay pervaded the whole lion , e. Every in mate of the hotel, anxious to preservetis own move ables,.was heedless of thecommon welfare, and the flames were sufired to rage with unmolested sWay, until the whole : bbilding was reduced to ashes'. Se-. veral engines repaired to the spot on the first alarm of fire ; but, unfortunately, as is too often the 'case On such occasions, there was no water to be pro cured for a considerable tim , !; and 'a strong wind setting in, all oth er exert i ons to stop the flames were frustrated. A considerable part of the moveable property was saved froth destru6tion, and the remainder was insured. We are happy in being able to coifed an errone ous statement which tound its way into the„news papers, that several persons were lost on this occasion. From every inquiry we have been able to make the statement appears to' be untrue,. no personal injury having befallen tiny of the inhabitants of the house. One of the firemen indeed, in the daring zeal, cha raderistic of this class of men, was severely scorch ed by continuing tdo long in the house, attempt ing to cut off the communication of the flames with the adjoining premiSes. He is,. however, we understand, .out of danger from the effeds of his injury. 1n spite of the laudableexertions of the volunteers who attended to prevent plunder, a great quntitity of the property taken from the burning premises was Carried olf. Sr. JANES'S PALACE.---At seven o'clock last night the ruins of the Palace, •near to the sent: of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE'S late apartments, began to blaze with great violence. Iwo large pieces of timber Were taken out, burning very furiously ; they were put into • the garden, and the plugs were opened to overflow the •place. The engines, which have re mained there since the fire commenced, began to play on the ruins. The high wind, abing upon the re mains of the fire, excited =eh alarm and apprc hension. '['lie fire, however, was soon got under, there being a good supply of water. The walls and stacks of chitnneys of the Palace were, during the day, in a tottering state ; no person could venture near them. CRIB AND BELCHER.—Thp grand match be tween these pugilists of first rate will take, place to morrow morning, at twelve o'clock. 'As our limits will confine us to the mere detail of the battle, a ► will be necessary to state a few words on the match. The 'combatants contended together on the Bth of April, 1807, for 200 guineas, at Moulsey Hurst, and bets before se tt i ng - to were 6 t04 on Belcher.— It was, perhapi, one of the most sanguinary battles that had been seen since the days of Broughton and Slack, and it was most obstinately contested for 55 minutes. Belcher, who had then lost an eye, raised the betting on him to y tO lin the first round,• and is was 3 to 1 until the 26th retina, when Belcher, Who had given and taken numberless Wows on' the head,- fell weak,- and resigned the battle' in the. 424 .Crib .was considerably the worst beaten; and Belcher, in the middle of the battle, lamed Isis tight hand, but nevertheless he continued to • act with it, and knocked Crib down with . the greatest ease, If report be true, Belcher. had so much+ the best of the battle, that Crib did not appear in time, and Belcher, thinking victory so easy, gave that chance away,' This ta6t h as b een declared ' by Bill Ward, Crib's second, (who died of a decline on Sunday last.) Btsttings on this event are 7to 4, and .2 to 1, on Crib, and the same odds on Young Bel. cher against Farnborough, an untried man, which will take place in the same ring. EFFECTS OF true FLOOD AT CHELMSFORD.--The water has not been so high at Chelmsford since the Tear 1762, salt - was on Wednesday last. - Half the town was then covered with water, and it was two feet ,deep in the house of Mr. Wood, ironmonger, in the middle of that town. It rat with great tOrce throngh the old House of Correction, opposite , the Black Buy Inn. A number of the inhabitants were obliged to remove from their 'houses, in carts, to go RS l i ar as the. bridge. Most part of Mouisham was covered with water, and it flowed into the houses' of Mr. Parker, 'Md. Sweetitik, and others, situated above the. House of Corredion. The ,back of the town towards , 6pringfield-lane, was completely overflown, and in this state it continued on Thurs day. On Saturday night, as the Exeter mail watt on its Way froin Undon, near Staines, the coachthan en deavoured to avoid a part of the road where he knew the waters Were out; in doing.whiCh he got into another part that had been flooded since he was there, and the *atee was so deep that the coach floated„ and the horses !warn. The coach was sud- . denly thrown over; the coachman and guard were thrown to a considerable distance. The passengers were girt out, after Considerable ditlienky; the horses were disengaged l*roin the coach; the bags of letters sustained but little injury,..and Were conveyed in a post-chaise, accompanied by another` . post-chaise with the passengers. The coach .cuuld not be got Our. The whole country round is in the most dis tressing state; it is covered with water front Chertsey to Maidenhead. The towns. are surrounded with floods, running in torrents as high as the parlour windows. Nunibers of poor inhabitants have nearly lost their all, which huts been carried away in the streams; and, in addition to their. distress,• oeca . - !dotted by this cause, the country is ill such it state, that they are not able to do any work; many cannot get Out of their houses to purchase food,. and what they do procure is put in at their cne pair of stairs window. The sower part of lighani is under wawr, and impassable. OPER?i . riONS . .IA I SPA. 4. The or the retreat, from the raUiditTor froitt the badness of the roads, from the frequent want of provisions, 'anoffrom the incletnency Ol the f t weather, - wzts extrediely.. harassing ! , As far, howz. ever . ; . as Villa-Vraoda,' the. tr oops kept very welltogether. From Villa-Viatica to Lugo, nearly se venteen leagues (a Icaguts; is f:sti)4?.r more than four English miles)'the army tt may be said,: almost without halting; at !oast they halted' only fO- a few hours; the cavalry vere only ;tWenty-six }snits in'etTeaing it, out of which time they were twenty-two hours on horseback. -,This oticasioned great straggling in the infantry„ And 'the loss of an immense number of holies to he cavalry. The ene my's cavalry constantly hung- on the rear-guaid, 'and made prisoners great number; or the stragglers. In some cases, they either shot or s2.bred them. When ever the' army halted to rest, a skirmish generally ensued, which of course added groally to the fa tigues Of the rear-guard, and indeted the in' general; for a skirmish was generally soon followed by a . movetnent''of the whole. On arriving - at Ltigo, Sir.Joha Moore found' his army in such a cortiplete state of disorganization, that a halt was absolutely necessary ; a brisk skirmish having taken --place the day after his arrival there, Sir Jan coneledetl it was the' fmerunner of an attack on the fallowing-.dab and on the 7th of January he took up a ' position with his army, in which on the Bth he expeaed the enemy tbgive him battle. But it is supposed, from t their not feeling themselves strong enongh, (al though' they had a considerable nu/noel-of itilantry np, oft was easily seen; the armies being posted or; opposite hills in sight of each other) they declined it. On the night, therefore, of the same day, the army again commenced their retreat; and from hence to Corunna the straggling became excesSive. With respea to the force of the enemy following the army, great differences 'of opinion were enter tained. Some thought it but inconsiderable, whilst others, who knew the French better than to sup pose they would trusfa small corps in a mountainous country, thought otherwise. The statements of the prisoners were, that two corps d'armee, under Soult and Junot, advanced from. Carrion and Sal- danha, whilst Ney, With his corps, accompanied by Napoleon in person, advanced from Madrid. Some asserted, there Was a fourth corps following Junot. A corps d'armee consists of from twenty to twenty five thousand men. Some are e ven stronger. N ay' s wacthirty, ofwhich 10,000 were of the Imperial Guard. Their cavalry, it was supposed, amounted to nearly ten thousand. Nay's corps, however, was thought not to have advanced further than Bette vente, and to have detached the force at present marching into Portugal. So that• the number alto gether following the British was probably from 30 to 35,000 men; the British army did not amotnit to 20 or 22,000 effeaive and fit.for duty, "even at Astorga. On the retreat, they were considerably reduced, as before stated; and Major-General Alien, with 4000 men, had been detached by °reuse, to cover the flank of the army in retreating, and em bark et Vigo. So that on the arrival of tl;e British at. Corunna the .effeaive force could not have ceeded 12 or 13,000 men. No SUppori whatever could possibly he expected' from the Martinis Da Romana and his army, or rather armed mob ;—he passed the British rear-guard at Astorgo, with, it was said, upwards of 20,000 pen, and snatched upon Orense. The day following that on which the army reached Commie, a sharp skirmish took place at the bridge of Bargo, where the Ruserve was posted on j der Major-General the, HOnottrable E. Paget. On the same evening he reared and took up a position About two miles in.front of Corunna, to which Ge- Ineral Sir ll.ivid Baird's 'and General Hope's clivisions advanced. General Frazer, with his division, was i posted to protect the right of the whole, and rather in the rear ; and the reserve the 'next day Were quartered in cottages in .the rear of. General Sir Da vid Baird and General Hope. The cavalry and ar t tillery had commenced embarking, 'leaving a few 11 men only for piquet.duty, and two brigades.olguns. On the 15th a genera l attac k on the' British ow- I posts took place, probably for the sake of drawing I out the iarmy and observing their position and force, which might be e a s ily d one , as t h e h e i ghts occupied by the enemy immediately commanded those on which the English were. .1n consdquence of this effair a general attack was expected early on the fol lowing day ; but . no movements were visible in the enemy's lines, t o , the great.surprise of . all. , The at leek was the more to be expeded, because an Eng. 7 halt woman arrived in the town, who had been' a prisoner with the French - army. Site brought a • message, she said, from General Junot to Sir. John Moore„ to say that he was arrived with the army. ' frord'Portitgal: About one Q'clock a general bustle was perceived, and shortly after the out-frosts were forced, and a heavy discharge of artillery commenc ed: Every one ittunediatelysaw that 4 generafat tack was it hand, and the whole army . was accord ingly drawn out a whilst the French artillery were .answered by the British, Cut not with such • effeel as might. have been wished for ; owing in the first place to the commanding position of the French : in the second to.. the principal part of the British, guns having been ernbarked and their places having been supplied by Spanish, for which, through some mis take, there was a Witi4 of proper, ammunitionjlie , British intantry, howev er , were re g ar dl ess of *this' superiority of the enemy, Whose attack was chiefly , , diretled against Sir David Boirtri division, where was - . the ‘veak . part of,the British line, and against whiChl • they advanced in three columns, two of which : Were; : Very strong. To these were opposed the 4th, with, 42d, mit, and 13 Ist regiments, and the Guards.—• Nothing could exceed their gallantry i n r , -.! i% , !! and 'repelling th e attack:: The enemy were iioini driven Irvin, the hill occupied by the British, up which they had its part advanced; and were tolloWcd half way ,up that occupied by 'themselves, when, theit,guna were posted; at whichlhe 50111 and a : . .zd nimediately 'dashed, and which were saved only by being withdrawn. • ''''' '''',.• ' . . A tillage at the foot of a hill, lid! of French fatitry, iras threes tinietint:lcked by tliQ Orb, supi ported by the Ottird3,' and at lengib'Cal'ritd with hlitrirnse daUghter to the and' nut without a iu'is to the sUth of two Majors and threo Lionte , nants, With flatly an hundred nsdn' 'aiid'iie- VQPI ()dice's and a considerable number of tm ii wounded. On the right cif this village, the 52d and rise corps had been mugged, and bad attQal,4 being very stiougiy poeed, had n , e‘efeine; folleeeed the etititY titi the - hill. i rr t t 1e; Ft than by a canuoeade. how eve r, re-4 )4th toot posted there, feeling the French had Occepied sideraGle — folee - , ganef' tiy 'lashed into with the bap. ; village, in their fr o nt i n con onete and: dove them from Ntelit coming ore , put aueetata.this affitir, in whi c h tile -. "e' n ,Y w,ei" decidedly defeat e d i n t h e i r purpose of turn,, e , e e , ti; • •e British, right, and with a less iminiteleegreater thee that of their opponents. The advanceet the British remained nearly .a mile in front of the position they had oectipied previous toehe attack —ea fee't whit 4 must speak foreitsell e in spite of eny lying-essertieu ehat may be made iteltetureßelleties. , This is : said, because In the etst Bulletin,. t e n 'Men tidy of the chasseues of the Ituperiel. Guard ere said to have beet' taken at Beeeverite, *lice it i 3 a facl i . that therteWere upwards of seeenty that corovenieie prisoners.. In these, Bolletios else settet,eleet the Fre nc h cavalry of 4uo oeie, were oppbsed,eo iOOO British. Will (.11NNal febvre,:iAittWoiinn.tuded, and who is now at Bea say this ?.• If so, why did he pay the highest pi isseee complimeete to the British cavalry? Why dirt he sty, " On part era lecu'oapje seeeteseeie vetee tic' ea .thwleterre?" Did General Durecnel, wit the Officers of the 'eliasseuio of the imperid Gulrd, report this ? If so, whyedid they, atter tee attei alto, pay the British high .compiieuees, and ere:. '! *ins n'ations pas acrotit,:::?ilis - goes comme t'OriS ?" All this Wit 4 not, note, ary, e there been the disparity of nteneers sweet (ter ,t could refle4 nos ereclie en . 200G . Mvn tP• 4 1 Q-it 4 0. The real feet is, that the • Frencli 'Weep froin i 0 iioe, and that they, were opposed by the; Bette!) piettersi c onsisting unit' of eleelteat the uttnust, C4O, first, not above 130 i that on the Aunt, of come:, tare regiment turned out e. bet not a ,single .titan cepting those on piquet, and some few. of ehe :id Germans, ever drew a sword. The French .Ottieori themselves know, and admitted all this ; end ./In naparre trust have known it ; for be arrived ttcolk after the enemy re-passed the river. But he itent: forward his faveurite chasseurseo wake aconp c:q re les 474 l o i s ; they were defeated, and he was pigtied, and in order to dissemble this he has not hesitetod to disgrace hi:melt:4 asserting that which keceW. to ,be directly contrary to the faete The steries el General Lefebvre being taken as stated in the Butpe letins are false; he was taken on the field by a. pri vote of the ette undone of the loth hussars. Theis discovered hint by his two orderly trumpeters. But where Buonaparte eontradies himself, it is hardly necessary to eontradi4 him. From the speeimene here prodeced, the general veracity of these Bel e letins maybe estimated: Of the other Officers killed, Neut. Colgeel M`Keneitefell; in the atfair of the lethe Lieut. Co lonel Napier efehe . gad, Majors 51.1101,504'0 Napier of "the 50th, on . the 16th. The briged'es, particularly engaged, Were thoie el Major Genereis. Lord William Bentintk, Leith, Morminehant, and \Verde ; and part of the reserve commanded ey. Ma e jor General the Hon. E. Paget. Of these the brigede of,Lbrd Bentitick suffered Mose The whole army, withehe exception of Major General Hill's brigade, and General 'Berestord's.,, embarked orethe night of the 16th, those leered into Corunna. On the 17th, the French Tin , ukt possession of the heights which. commanded the inner harbour, commenced about the middle of the , day a cannonade on our shipping, which occeeieoed their cutting their cables:and getting meter weigh in come confusion, and; with the loss, of four or five transports that got on shore but from on board of which the troops were removed. the whole the men of war also weighed, with the exception of I the Barfieur, , I.Vbielt re mained at, anchor, and near : which the Reseledielle Captain, Burhon, brought up, and during the eight: the. remainder of the British troops embarked, prlo T cipally onboard these Ships, leaving nova matt hind. ST. dILB,IIV'S ELEC27OY, On Wednesday last came oh the ele6tion of a Alemher for the above Borough,. an coni , :quence of MN GRIAISTON, ,the late Member, being called tea the Upper. House. The Candidates were, DANIEL GILES, 4. 1 . of Youngberry, and ROBERT WILLIAMS, /1,q.. of lifl. hill, both in tho Comity Qt Herts. A shew - of haticb being demanded by the Returning Officer, the num. bers were declared so 'equal, a second shew was de. manded, when the majority was declared in favour of Mr. GILL , . : A poll was then domatided, pi kr to the . commencement of which, a plwest was entered, signed by Mr. WILLIAMS and many oldie Burgesses, and read to the Eledors by the Returning Officer, stating Mr. GILES'S ineligibility to be reit:rued Mem. ber, on the ground of bribery. Mr. OtLis, Addressed the eleaors!in a long an:l elaborate speech, in which-lie . avowed his pont ‘.%.1 , 1 I principles. Ho was ansvvered by Mr: WI (Ala s lt on energetic slieeeb, us Iv hich he, took ocpasiPti te. do tare himself the firm and fast 'friend of the Governtueot, because he believed them the friends of their Country, which, 4ssisted fIL! 1 dam of their couneila stands at thi*llloThea in de fiance of the pressure' of the wontent, the admira tion, of„ surrounding nations, and the UR of the whole World. He then adverted to other.iopicr4 en which he commented with much skiff, and in be seemed very anxious' ru obtain ,tt 'pointed deatr,- bun of GILES'SIitIt;C,,I her. , lie quest,,.:. Mr, Wti.t.tAm., after havn l g certain nt: ,•• v: tho hituciStin.;;.st ;,..lot:; any Ittrth‘..r twunit.: o ;•‘ : in the , vWdityof his pi orrit, whi ; ;Littlet the right of petitionit4 ,r retorts. BULL V BA lle.--Al.) 1t i 511 114:),10ra fl0;;IVIW)114C Cibo the 'or a COMIIIOI7. 'was stibP=,, 'd a short time 5it1(11 dg WittteA itl the Court lenelk. Pat:Amide po alteration in his garb, and his appelrmice exeitcd a sneer amon t .:'!st the Barri- , titers,. His pride hAila rons,:4l,,Pae testimony by the following addrei4 icy the Bach ;-- ", May it pinise your WorOlipi, some c , lthoz,e Oen. Herten yondert (looking 10 Orw, bigAt, g0v:149 „icti 1)0 Wijer44l, Nip) tangl4 at nio when 1 earnv court, aro, 9o p o cocui called 111.:: 14 dilly filt i OW dc., not sec: any roytoti for tins, It ia true I ere in tify working (1101, bat, plan your tions.l4*-s, so - i4rc tire!! !".